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R1 a R2 b SiO.sub.(4-a-b)/2'
R1 a R2 b SiO.sub.(4-a-b)/2'
The present invention relates to an electroluminescent composition and an electroluminescent device having a light-emitting layer of the composition. More particularly, the invention relates to an electroluminescent composition comprising a specific dielectric material as the matrix and a particulate electroluminescent material dispersed in the matrix as well as a dispersion-type electroluminescent device of uniform light emission of high brightness and excellent durability characteristic having a light-emitting layer of the composition.
Different from other types of light-emitting devices, electroluminescent devices in general have a characteristic as a plane light source of low power consumption and are increasingly highlighted in recent years in the applications for illumination and panel display units. Electroluminescent devices are classified depending on the structure of the light-emitting layer into dispersion-type and thin film-type ones, of which the former type ones are now at the starting stage for practical applications as a back of liquid crystal display units, guide light, allnight light and the like by virtue of the advantages such as easiness of preparation, inexpensiveness, shapability into any desired forms and so on.
The light-emitting body of a dispersion-type electroluminescent device is a thin layer formed of a composition comprising a dielectric material as the matrix and a particulate electroluminescent material, such as zinc sulfide, zinc selenide, zinc silicate, boron nitride, silicon carbide and the like, uniformly dispersed in the matrix. The electroluminescent device is prepared basically by coating a substrate to serve as one of the electrodes with a coating liquid which is a dispersion of the particulate electroluminescent material in a solution of the dielectric material to form a thin coating layer and, after evaporation of the solvent, sandwiching the layer with another electrode plate by adhesively bonding with heating under pressure. It is known that the brightness of the electroluminescent layer depends on the dielectric constant of the dielectric material as the matrix and a dielectric material having a larger dielectric constant gives a higher brightness.
The dielectric material of high dielectric constant used for the purpose is usually a polymeric material having a large dielectric constant including cyanoethylated polysaccharides such as cyanoethyl cellulose, cyanoethyl starch, cyanoethyl pullulan and the like, cyanoethylated polysaccharide derivatives such as cyanoethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose, cyanoethyl glycerol pullulan and the like, cyanoethylated polyol compounds such as cyanoethyl poly(vinyl alcohol) and the like and fluorocarbon resins such as poly(vinylidene fluoride) and the like. These conventional high-dielectric polymeric materials, however, have several disadvantages and problems and are not always quite satisfactory as a matrix material for particulate electroluminescent materials.
For example, the cyanoethylated polysaccharides and polysaccharide derivatives and cyanoethyl poly(vinyl alcohol) have a defect in common in the large hygroscopicity. When such a polymeric material is used as the matrix of particulate electroluminescent materials, namely, the electroluminescent material is subject to degradation of the light-emitting efficiency as being affected by the large moisture content of the matrix so that the durability of the electroluminescent device is unavoidably decreased. This undesirable phenomenon can be prevented to some extent by taking a measure for rigorous moisture control and dehumidification of the matrix material in the manufacturing process of the devices although such a measure is undesirable in respect of the productivity of the manufacturing process if not to mention the incompleteness of the effect obtained thereby.
Besides, cyanoethyl cellulose and cyanoethyl starch have a problem in the relatively low adhesive bonding strength to the substrate electrodes sometimes to form a void interstice between the electrode and the light-emitting layer or to cause portion-wise exfoliation of the electrode and the light-emitting layer so that the uniformity in the light emission as one of the characteristic features of electroluminescent devices is greatly decreased. This problem of low adhesive bonding strength can be partly solved by admixing the matrix polymer with a plasticizer but admixture of a plasticizer necessarily results in a decreased dielectric constant and consequent decrease in the brightness as well as a decrease in the durability of the light-emitting body.
Another serious problem in the cyanoethyl hydroxyethyl cellulose, cyanoethyl glycerol pullulan and cyanoethyl poly(vinyl alcohol) is the relatively large temperature dependency of the dielectric constant thereof which sometimes limits the temperature range in which the electroluminescent devices using these polymers as the matrix can be used.
Fluorocarbon resins such as poly(vinylidene fluoride) and the like, on the other hand, are advantageous in respect of their low hygroscopicity and small temperature dependency of their dielectric constant. However, the dielectric constant of the polymers of this class in general is as small as only about a half of that of the cyanoethylated polysaccharides and polysaccharide derivatives so that the brightness of the devices using such a polymer inherently cannot be high enough.
The present invention accordingly has an object to provide an electroluminescent device free from the above described problems and disadvantages in the prior art and the light-emitting body of the inventive device is a layer formed of a composition which comprise:
(a) a dielectric polymeric material as the matrix mainly composed of an organopolysiloxane represented by tha average unit formula
R1 a R2 b SiO.sub.(4-a-b)/2' (I)
in which R1 is a cyanoalkyl group having 3 to 5 carbon atoms, R2 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group or a hydrogen atom, the subscript a is a positive number in the range from 0.8 to 1.8 and the subscript b is zero or a positive number not exceeding 1.0 with the proviso that a+b is in the range from 1.1 to 1.98; and
(b) a particulate electroluminescent material dispersed in the matrix.
The FIGURE is a vertical cross sectional view of an electroluminescent device according to the present invention.
As is understood from the above given description, the most characteristic feature of the inventive electroluminescent composition consists in the use of a unique dielectric material as the matrix. Namely, the matrix material of the inventive electroluminescent composition is a cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane having excellent electric properties such as a large dielectric constant and small dielectric tangent along with low hygroscopicity and good film formability so that an electroluminescent device prepared by using such a dielectric material as the matrix of the electroluminescent layer is freed from the problems and disadvantages in the conventional electroluminescent devices of the prior art.
The particulate electroluminescent material dispersed in the dielectric matrix can be any of known ones including fluorescent materials such as cadmium sulfide CdS, zinc sulfide ZnS, zinc selenide ZnSe, zinc silicate ZnSiO, boron nitride BN, silicon carbide SiC and the like. The particulate electroluminescent material preferably has an average particle diameter not exceeding 50 μm in respect of the efficiency of light emission of the electroluminescent device prepared therefrom.
The electroluminescent composition of the present invention is prepared by dispersing the above described particulate electroluminescent material in a dielectric material as the matrix mainly composed of a specific cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane which is represented by the average unit formula
R1 a R2 b SiO.sub.(4-a-b)/2 (I)
In the formula, R1 is a cyanoalkyl group having 3 to 5 carbon atoms such as 2-cyanoethyl, 3-cyanopropyl, 4-cyanobutyl, 2-cyanopropyl, 2-cyanobutyl and 2-methyl-2-cyanopropyl groups. It is optional that two kinds or more of these cyanoalkyl groups are contained in a molecule of the organopolysiloxane. The symbol R2 in the formula denotes a hydrogen atom or a monovalent hydrocarbon group exemplified by alkyl groups, e g., methyl, ethyl, propyl and butyl groups, cycloalkyl groups, e.g., cyclohexyl group and aryl groups, e.g., phenyl and tolyl groups. The hydrogen atoms in these hydrocarbon groups can be replaced partly or wholly with halogen atoms to give a halogen-substituted hydrocarbon group such as chloromethyl, 3,3,3-trifluoropropyl and 6,6,6-trifluorohexyl groups. The organopolysiloxane as the constituent of the component (a) is imparted with a high dielectric constant by virtue of the highly polar nitrile groups in the cyanoalkyl groups denoted by R1 which are oriented and polarized in an electric field.
In this regard, the subscript a in the average unit formula (I) should be at least 0.8 because an organopolysiloxane of which the value of a is smaller than 0.8 contains only an insufficient amount of the nitrile groups consequertly to have a decreased dielectric constant so that the electroluminescent device prepared by using such an organopolysiloxane as the matrix cannot exhibit full brightness. Although the value of a in the average unit formula (I) is preferably as large as possible in order to have a further increased dielectric constant of the organopolysiloxane, introduction of a large amount of nitrile groups into an organopolysiloxane may cause a difficulty in the industrial manufacture of the organopolysiloxane so that the value of the subscript a is limited in the range from 0.8 to 1.8. The subscript b which relates to the relative content of the groups denoted by R2 does not exceed 1.0 or, preferably, is in the range from 0.01 to 0.1. A value of b larger than the above mentioned upper limit means that the content of the cyanoalkyl groups denoted by R1 relative to the groups R2 is decreased so much to cause a decrease in the dielectric constant in view of the limitation in the value of a+b. Namely, a+b in the average unit formula (I) is in the range from 1.1 to 1.98. When the value of a+b is smaller than 1.1, the organopolysiloxane is in the form of a very brittle resinous material with a highly branched molecular structure so that the light-emitting layer prepared by using such an organopolysiloxane has a poor impact strength to be readily cracked by impact and electroluminescent devices having flexibility cannot be manufactured. When the value of a+b is too large, on the other hand, the organopolysiloxane is in an oily form without film-formability so that it cannot be used as a matrix material of the particulate electroluminescent material.
The cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane can be synthesized by any of known methods conventionally undertaken in the art of silicone products. For example, a cyanoalkyl group-containing organic compound is reacted with a hydrolyzable organosilane having a group reactive with the cyanoalkyl compound to prepare a cyanoalkyl group-containing hydrolyzable organosilane compound which is then subjected to hydrolysis and condensation reaction to give a cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane. Various types of reactions known in the organosilicon chemistry can of course be applied to the preparation of the organopolysiloxane including the addition reaction, dealcoholation condensation reaction, dehydration condensation reaction and the like with or without addition of a catalyst and/or solvent according to need.
The electroluminescent device of the invention comprises a light-emitting layer formed of a composition comprising a matrix material mainly composed of the above described cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane as a dielectric material and a particulate electroluminescent material dispersed in the matrix. The particulate electroluminescent material is dispersed in the matrix by adding the same with agitation to a solution of the cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane in an organic solvent which is one or a mixture of acetone, N,N-dimethyl formamide, nitromethane, acetonitrile, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone and the like followed by evaporation of the solvent. The amount of the particulate electroluminescent material added to the matrix is preferably in the range from 20% to 80% by volume based on the cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane. When the amount thereof is too small, the content of the particulate electroluminescent material is too low in the light-emitting layer so that the electroluminescent device having such a light-emitting layer cannot exhibit full brightness. When the amount of the particulate electroluminescent material is too large, on the other hand, difficulties are encountered in obtaining uniform dispersion of the powder in the matrix.
The light-emitting layer of the inventive electroluminescent composition is formed by coating a substrate electrode with a dispersion of the particulate electroluminescent material in a solution of the cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane prepared in the above described manner in a coating thickness of, for example, 10 to 70 μm by a known method such as screen printing followed by drying. The electrode substrate, which desirably has transparency, is not particularly limitative to a specific type. A typical electrode substrate is a thin layer of indium oxide as a transparent electroconductive layer formed on a polyester film. It is optional according to need that the above mentioned dispersion of the particulate electroluminescent material is further admixed with known additives including high-dielectric materials, ferroelectric materials, semi-conductive oxides and the like.
In the preparation of an electroluminescent device according to the invention, a light-emitting layer is formed on a transparent electrode substrate in the above described manner, an insulating overcoating layer is formed thereon in a conventional manner, a backing electrode is provided thereon by pressing an aluminum foil of 20 to 100 μm thickness at 80 to 180� C. and the transparent electrode and the backing electrode are provided each with a lead wire to serve as an electrode terminal connected to a driving circuit.
A typical electroluminescent device of the invention is illustrated in the figure of the accompanying drawing by a vertical cross section in which a transparent electrode plate 1, which is a film of a plastic resin such as polyester and cellulose acetate or a glass plate coated with a transparent electroconductive film of indium oxide, tin oxide and the like, is provided successively with layers including a light-emitting layer 2, which is formed of a composition comprising a cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane as the matix and a particulate electroluminescent material dispersed in the matrix, an insulating layer 3 formed of barium titanate, which serves to increase the dielectric strength of the device and to decrease the voltage dependency of light emission, and a backing electrode 4 made of a foil of aluminum, silver and the like and electrode terminals 6 are connected to the transparent electrode plate 1 and the backing electrode 4 and come out of the casing 5 enveloping the light-emitting assembly.
The electroluminescent device of the invention having the above described structure has several advantages over conventional ones by virtue of the use of a cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxane as the matrix of the particulate electroluminescent material including: high brightness of light emission and small temperature dependency of brightness; only slight decrease in brightness after prolonged lighting; excellent impact strength with flexibility; and excellent heat resistance with high thermal decomposition temperature. Accordingly, the electroluminescent device of the invention is useful in various industrial applications not only as a backlight of liquid crystal displays but also as a plane light emitting body.
In the following, the present invention is described in more detail by first giving synthetic examples for the preparation of the cyanoalkyl group-containing organopolysiloxanes as the dielectric matrix material of a particulate electroluminescent material and then giving examples of the electroluminescent devices prepared by using the matrix material. Synthetic Preparations.
In Preparation 1, 15.9 g of 2-cyanoethyl methyl dimethoxy silane as a difunctionally hydrolyzable silane and 21.7 g of 2-cyanoethyl triethoxy silane as a trifunctionally hydrolyzable silane were introduced into a three-necked flask of 100 ml capacity and an aqueous solution prepared by adding 0.30 ml of a 15% aqueous solution of tetramethyl ammonium hydroxide to 9 g of pure water was added dropwise to the silane mixture in the flask under agitation and, when a homogeneous solution had been formed in the flask, the mixture was heated at 90� C. for 2 hours to effect cohydrolysis and condensation of the silanes. The resultant product was a semi-solid transparent material which could be identified by chemical analysis to be an organopolysiloxane containing 2-cyanoethyl groups in an amount approximately corresponding to the formulation of the starting silane mixture.
The synthetic procedure in Preparations 2 and 3 was substantially the same as above excepting modification of the formulation of the reaction mixture that the amounts of the 2-cyanoethyl methyl dimethoxy silane, 2-cyanoethyl triethoxy silane and water were 9.5 g, 30.4 g and 10 g, respectively, in Preparation 2 and 6.4 g, 34.7 g and 12 g, respectively, in Preparation 3. The molar ratios of the difunctionally hydrolyzable silane to the trifunctionally hydrolyzable silane were 0.43 and 0.25 in Preparations 2 and 3, respectively, while the ratio was 1.0 in Preparation 1. Consequently, the products obtained in Preparations 2 and 3 were solid rather than semi-solid.
Each of the thus prepared cyanoethyl group-containing organopolysiloxanes was dissolved in acetone and a film of the organopolysiloxane having a thickness of about 0.10 mm was prepared from the solution by casting followed by drying at 80� C. for 4 hours. The organopolysiloxane films were subjected to the measurements of the dielectric properties, i.e. dielectric constant and dielectric tangent, at 20� C. and a frequency of 1 kHz, mechanical properties, i.e. tensile strength and ultimate elongation, at room temperature, amount of moisture absorption after keeping for 120 hours in an atmosphere of 25� C. and 75% relative humidity and thermal decomposition temperature in air to give the results shown in Table 1 to follow.
For comparison, further films were prepared from a cyanoethyl cellulose (Acrylocel, a product by Tel Systems Inc., U.S.A.) and a cyanoethylated poly(vinyl alcohol) obtained according to the procedure described in Journal of Electrochemical Society, volume 111, No. 11, pages 1239-1243 (1964), referred to as CEC and CPVA, respectively, hereinbelow, and these comparative films were subjected to the measurements of the properties in the same manner as above to give the results also shown in Table 1.
TABLE 1______________________________________ Prepa- Prepa- Prepa- ration ration rationSample 1 2 3 CEC CPVA______________________________________Dielectric constant 27 25 23 15 18Dielectric tangent 0.052 0.045 0.036 0.036 0.070Tensile strength, kg/cm2 50 250 430 310 50Ultimate elongation, % >500 100 1.8 1.5 >500Moisture absorption, % 1.3 1.3 1.2 5.0 4.7Thermal decomposition 350 350 390 250 230temperature, �C.______________________________________
Solutions were prepared by dissolving each 80 g of the cyanoethyl group-containing organopolysiloxanes obtained in the same manner as in Preparations 1 to 3 described above in 120 g of N,N-dimethyl formamide. A half portion of each solution was admixed with an electroluminescent zinc sulfide-based fluoreacent material of the formula ZnS:CuAl having an average particle diameter of 20 μm in an aount of 40% by volume based on the organopolysiloxane to give a coating disparsion for electroluminescent light-emitting layer. Separately, the other half portion of the solution was admixed with barium titanate having a particle diameter of 1 to 2 μm in an amount of 40% by volume based on the organopolysiloxane to give a coating dispersion for dielectric insulating layer.
A transparent electrode substrate was prepared by providing a glass plate of 50 mm by 50 mm wide with a thin film of indium oxide having a thickness of 200 nm by the method of vapor deposition and coated successively first with the above prepared coating dispersion for light-emitting layer by screen printing in a thickness of about 40 μm as dried followed by drying at 150� C. for 4 hours and then with the coating dispersion for insulating layer by screen printing in a thickness of about 15 μm as dried followed by drying at 150� C. for 4 hours. Further, an aluminum foil of 50 μm thickness was applied and bonded to the insulating layer at 170� C. under a pressure of 10 kg/cm2 as a backing electrode. Lead wires to serve as the electrode terminals were connected to the transparent electrode and the backing electrode and the thus prepared light-emitting assembly was encapsulated at 220� C. with a sheet of a poly(chloro trifluoro ethylene) (Acrer, a product by Allied Chemical Co.) to complete en electroluminescent device. In this manner, three electroluminescent devices I, II and III were prepared from the cyanoethyl group-containing organopolysiloxanes obtained in Preparations 1, 2 and 3, respectively. Two more electroluminescent devices IV and V were prepared in the same manner as above excepting replacement of the cyanoethyl group-containing organopolysiloxane with the same cyanoethyl cellulose or cyanoethylated poly(vinyl alcohol) shown in Table 1, respectively, as dissolved in N,N-dimethyl formamide in a concentration of 20% by weight to serve as the dispersion medium of the particulate electroluminescent material or barium titanate.
Evaluation of these electroluminescent devices I to V was undertaken by connecting the lead wires of each device to a AC power source of 100 volts at a frequency of 400 Hz to determine the initial brightness and the half life period which was the length of time taken until the brightness of the electroluminescence was decreased to a half of the initial value when the electroluminescent device under power impression in the above mentioned conditions was kept in an atmosphere of 40� C. and 90% relative humidity. The results are shown in Table 2 below.
TABLE 2______________________________________Electrolumi- Half lifenescent de- Initial bright- period,vice No. ness, ft. � L hours______________________________________I 40 390II 34 450III 28 580IV 16 360V 18 270______________________________________
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About 12 years ago, OBX. We stayed thru the mandatory evac of I forget which hurricane. Next day was clear blue skies, no wind. Ocean was ferocious. I tried and tried, never made it out. My buddy made it, he was this little speck - looked a mile away. Caught one wave, it reformed 4x and he rode it all the way to the beach. Was up and riding for about 2 minutes. Was something to see.
\nI remember just trying to exit the water, right at the edge, kept getting dragged back in. Kicked my butt.
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It seems that the heavy, strong current beach breaks are a definite theme here. This would back my buddy's claim that blacks is the worst, esp since the offshore canyon can let in serious swell and brutal deepwater currents. I've been down to Rodanthe a handful of times, and the shifting sandbars can make for a long paddle. I've never experienced a hurricane there, but add in some hurricane swell and I'm sure you've got yourself a hell of a challenge, esp if you're headed to some offshore sandbar. Some of the meanest waters I've ever seen were at Hatteras.
\nI can sympathize with the cold water paddle outs and the wall experiences since I've enjoyed the majority of good fall swells in nh (also since right now is that time of yr when it goes from chilly to head-explodingly cold). Add in how physically heavy the water feels at that temp, and after a few on the head you don't care about getting beat up - just the fact that your head hurts so much it actually makes you angry every time you have to dive under. I think I let myself belive if I continue to surf cold water, my body will somehow adapt and it won't be so bad next winter.. but I'm still waiting
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Quad over head at mavericks 2 winters ago. It was late January and the water was in the low fiftys. There were about ten of us. Everyone was too scared to go out. We paddled out, the sets were about 10-15 min apart so it was easy to get there, but first set came in and I paddled for my life (literally for my life) and I started down the face, I'm only about 15 feet down when I turn to look at the lip and bam I flying. I hit a chop in the face and flew forward. I finally hit the water and it felt like concrete and got thrown around by that monster for like fifteen seconds I come up and bam down again, I just kept paddling for shore getting pounded each time. Scariest thing thats ever happened but makes a good story. Kidding. But good stories so far
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I love the Cali stories - wish my continental shelf wasn't so large.... hmmm anyhow... for waves to be breaking over the end of that pier is insane. That pier must be close to 25/30 feet off the water in that shot. craziness. For someone to be surfing for 25+ years and one day to stand out like that it must have been critical. Duck diving guns is obviously possible since the big wave guys make it through crazy breaks but there's no way you can push all that volume and surface area through a truly thick face... just scratch as hard as you can to get over the top.
Anyone ever have a super long paddle out? ive heard stories of offshore reefs in Indo being a solid 3/4 mile paddle, and guys with no boat, decent swell and purportedly large carnivorous fish making the paddle to have a go.
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Nov 27, 2012, 10:36 PM
Back in the mid 80's, early in my surfing career at Duck Pier in OBX. Still the biggest waves I've ever surfed. It was the morning after a big nor'easter and hadn't quite cleaned up but was well on its way. The "shore break" 40-50 yards or so outside of the end of the pier was about half way out. And, if I remember correctly the pier is about a 1/4 mile long. The combo of being young, dumb and stoked was the only thing that kept us paddling for at least 45 min. into line after line of whitewater until we finally got out. The violence of how fast my board was ripped from my hands during a few duck dives was incredible.
\nCaught about 4 waves over a 2 hour period and decided to go in. Rode one until it closed out and I started to paddle for the beach. Well, on the way out I hadn't thought about what it would be like to get blasted shoreward by 3x overhead lines of white water for a couple hundred yards to the beach. No waves to catch...just let the whitewater hit ya and hold on. It was a very vivid realization of how small and insignificant I really was to the world.
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very big days in rockaway can be tough next to the big 90th st jetty. you had to time it right, otherwise you were getting worked in some weird inside area right next to the jetty. a lot of ppl walk out but that's just not for me. not sure how it is post-sandy
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Hurricane Bill in Buxton, NC.
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Last October, at The Wall. Cant remember if it was a hurricane or not, but it was head high. It was my 3rd time ever surfing. I was on a 7'10" Funshape, so no duck diving, just getting pounded over and over. Total kook. I did not think I was going to get out. After about 30-40 min I got out, then proceeded to wipe out and get stuck in the impact zone over and over all day. I learned a lot that day.
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:45 AM
My worst paddle out was back in the winter of 03-04 (maybe 04-05, time has a way of playing tricks on the memory). I was living in PB and it was big enough that the Point was breaking and the beach was closing out. I peddled down Diamond (must have been 04) and took a look at the Point and there were just so many heads in the water. So I looked down at the pier. The waves were breaking OVER the top of the railing at the end of Crystal Pier and that pier sits pretty high out of the water. I saw one other guy out there trying to catch the lefts. Except for the guys at the point, he was the only surfer in the water from the pier to Tourmaline. I figured, heck he made it, might as well give it a try even though I'd never tried surfing the pier when it was that big. I had the last CI I've ever owned, I think it was a 6'8"or 6'10", some pintail model. I paddle straight out where the giant concrete slab on the cliff is, it takes me a good 10-15 minutes of diving under pounding beach break until I can line up with the end of the pier and start heading south to get into position. This is usually a 1 or 2 minute paddle out. As soon as I get within 50 yards of the pier I get hit by the gnarliest rip current I have ever been in. Within seconds I'm right up on the pier pilings. The rip's trying to pull me around the pier, which scared the beejeesus out of me since I was worried about a set coming through and smashing into it. OR worse, getting sucked out to Japan. I hadn't told anyone I was going surfing that day, so it would be hours and hours before anyone even reported me missing. The pier was closed, due to the size of the waves breaking over it, so there was no one to call for help to and the other surfer had disappeared. I paddled and paddled and paddled like I have never paddled before. I paddled North easily for 45 minutes, maybe an hour straight, maybe longer, harder than I ever have before or since, all I know is that it was the longest paddle of my life; just trying to get away from the pier pilings, until finally I was far enough out on the shoulder to line up and catch one of the monsters in. I waited for a smaller set, paddling the whole time. Finally there was a real, clean, smaller looking set coming in. The first wave looked real smooth and smaller than anything else I'd seen all day, but it was still a giant. I knew that I had better catch it and ride it all the way in and not wipe out, as I was too tired to keep paddling and the shore break was going to eat me alive. I was paddling with my nose towards the North, parallel to the shore, so I only had to start pulling a little harder with my right arm to get the right angle on the wave. I still think of that as one of my make-or-break moments and I'm so glad I didn't break. Somehow I rode that wave all the way in. It was the only one I caught that day. That is the only time I have ever truly feared for my life while surfing. I was wearing a spring suit with a 2mm shirt underneath instead of a real wetsuit, because I was so poor (I was still blowing glass primarily and my software biz hadn't taken off yet) back then and it was January or February. I was afraid that if I gave up and got sucked out by the riptide, I would die of hypothermia long before anyone would ever find me. It was really foggy that day. I went out and bought a half decent bodyglove full suit as soon as I got some money.
Here's a pic of the pier on a much calmer day to put the story in perspective. Breaking over the top of the railing.
Two little mice fell in a bucket of cream. The first mouse quickly gave up and drowned. The second mouse, wouldn't quit. He struggled so hard that eventually he turned that cream into butter and crawled out.
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Nov 28, 2012, 02:22 AM
^^gnar essay. too much passive voice i reckon though.
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Nov 28, 2012, 05:29 AM
I have never seen anyone successfully duck dive a decent wave on a longboard... So I googled it like you said and almost everything says it's next to impossible to do. How do you do it?
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Nov 28, 2012, 12:19 PM
Actually, I surf with a couple very seasoned surfers (20+ years experience), and they now ride longboards until it gets well overhead. They cannot duck dive their boards. They usually roll them to get through bigger waves.
Actually, I found this on google: http://howtobuyasurfboard.net/techni...-in-big-water/
That is what I do, and I do not call it a duck dive. When it is higher than 4 ft, I use the second method of diving while holding on to the back where the lease fastens. Not the best methods, but it works.
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Definitely not the same as duck diving a shortboard but similar.
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Nov 28, 2012, 04:56 PM
It's not hard, just tricky. It's all in the little hook/corkscrew maneuver and then making sure the tail follows the nose under. I started doing it long before ever stumbling across that article.
No one ever told me it wasn't possible. I miss that one a lot.
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Hey Gaff that link's not connecting, not sure if it's just my computer though. Roughest paddle out for me was at a R.I. beachie during a 'cane swell in '03, the storm before Isabel. Oddly enough, one of the easier paddle outs I've had was on the day I rode the biggest wave of my life, the Luis swell in '95, at an undislosed point. Made the decision to paddle up the point after getting my ass handed to me on the sand bar, had no clue how big it was till I actually got out there.
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[QUOTE=zaGaffer;147936]How do you think people get guns or long boards out into big waves? I don't know how tall or strong you are or how much you weigh; but it doesn't matter, just about anyone can duck dive just about any board. It's a question of mechanics, not muscle.
hey i have a 6'8" board and i weigh 150.. i cannot seem to duck dive i just get the nose into the water and it wont go down anymore..
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Nov 30, 2012, 02:53 PM
Try tipping it over on it's side and driving the rail down and under with like a scooping motion. That gets the nose down... then use your foot to sink the tail as best you can. This technique works best when approaching the oncoming wave at an angle.
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Prai mole in Florianopolis Brazil on a big day for me.
Pretty much impossible to paddle out.
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Nov 28, 2012, 04:03 AM
^ Not heavy but a long Indo paddle story. I started at HH Sanur which is already 1/3 off a mile out caught some waves pealing nicely down the reef...thought 'grass is greener' it looks better further up the reef...paddled up their caught some more waves talked to some Aussies... 'grass is greener' got the better of me again paddled up the reef caught more waves talked to some Aussies... repeat the process a couple more times till I'm like a mile out not quite to Hyatt but scary far when you realize your all by yourself at a unfamiliar spot and no one knows where you are in the midst of tiger shark country...the tide dropped quickly causing the waves to closeout in knee deep water over reef. Could I take the direct route in? Sure but off the reef the water gets deeper and I'm in no mood for a 3/4 mile paddle with the jaws theme playing in my head. So I take beatings on closeouts the mile or so back down the reef to sanur by the time I got back the tide was so low I could walk most of the 1/3 of a mile straight in to the beach. Luckily by then a few years of Micronesia had turned my feet into virtual reef booties. Not the longest paddle ever but longest in a strange place. A lot of the spots in Micronesia were 1/2 to 3/4 mile+ paddles but reefs and passes not continuous whitewater.
\nHeaviest paddle out? Beachies OBX at OH-DOH for sure. Florida super storm Sandy was still playful at that size. OBX gets heavy at that size...one of two times I've almost drown.
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For me, it was out on Parramore Island, VA, before the Nature Conservancy took it over. We used to go out there over spring break and camp for a week at a time. We'd kayak out with food and water and tents... surfboards strapped to our boats or towing behind... because it was pretty much uninhabited and had no water. You had to time the trips out and back with the tide because it can be a tough paddle against the current through the back bays and creeks. One trip we knew we'd be getting huge surf, because a storm was bearing down, and taking the ferry from Cape May to Lewis was a rough one, with the boat rolling side to side so hard that looking out the window it was... water... sky... water... sky. When we finally parked the truck in Wachapreague, loaded up, and hit the water, we knew we'd be cutting it close with daylight. We just got there at dark, got set up and tried to sleep. But we couldn't... the muffled roar of storm surf filtering through the trees from the other side of the island all night was too scary and exciting to let our minds go to rest.
\nThe next day we suited up at first light and walked through the woods to the beach. It was big and breaking way out... I don't even know how many sets of sandbars you had to paddle over to get to the outside, but it was breaking so far out you couldn't really see where the outside was setting up. The current was running like a river, so we walked waaaaay up the beach and jumped in. There was no timing it... it was just non stop pounding surf. We never made it to the outside. We ended up drifting for MILES struggling to make it out, and just never did. Finally we started to see we were coming to the south end of the island, so we just came in and walked back, exhausted and defeated.
\nThe next day was perfect, overhead barrels (mostly lefts) and offshore. From hell to heaven in 24 hours.
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Playa Hermosa, CR. First time on a new twin fin. It was pretty heavy and mostly closing out. I paddled for a solid 45 minutes. It was the only time I haven't made it out as an experienced surfer. The only guy catching anything was getting towed in with a ski. It was real sketchy getting back to the beach, as I had been pushed down near the rocks.
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OBX lighthouse on a bigger day...sweep down the beach can be brutal. Denied 4 times.
They say OB SF is the worst of the worst, but I've never been there.
I've never had a problem at any reef breaks, Hawaii, Indo, Puerto Rico, etc.
But anytime the water is really really cold, like NE water 40 and below, the paddle outs are always worse, even if the conditions aren't as bad. I'd rather take a beating in warm water than 35 degree water with a 5 mil w/ hood, boots, and gloves, any day of the week.
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I've lived on the east coast, hawaii, and cali, and I think the worst consistently difficult paddle out for "regular guy" surfers like myself is Ocean Beach SF. It is such a pain that most of the reports include a paddle-out time ("took me 45 min to get out").
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Nov 28, 2012, 02:23 PM
eh, I've made plenty of walks of shame, no biggie on the east coast breaks. It's nice actually, the ocean self regulates here. If you can make it out, go for it. No channel to stumble out into and then get raped on a wave you shouldn't be surfing in the first place. I did paddle out on the wrong side of a pier once, realized this about 1/2 way out when the first set came though. That was interesting. Broke the board and shredded the wetsuit on the barnacles
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i've surfed blacks when it was around head high, but never bigger. i can imagine surfing there during a big swell is a recipe for some rough beatings. one of the worst paddle outs i've experienced happened a few years ago at overhead marias in pr, ona board that was way too short on a day with a ridiculous current. i ended up finally making it out there and caught a wave at dogmans, broke my leash duck diving a clean up set on the way back out and ended up swimming/getting pummeled all the way to the inside where my board was floating. A friend of mine also lost his board to the clean up set and had to swim in with me. He definitely helped keep me from panicking on the swim in, as I had never experienced anything that heavy before. Im pretty sure he ended up paddling back out, but after the initial paddle out and the subsuquent swim in, I was done. Besides this experience,any winter swell at home (NY) has the potential to leave you stuck on the inside, paddling till you're exhausted, without having caught a wave.
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My toughest paddle out/most memorable, would have to be down in Rodanthe a few years back. There was a huge south swell, with a good 8 mph south to north current. I didn't want to paddle out, but I let my two crazy friends talk me into it. We paddle out just north of the pier and by the time I made it out, I was just passing S Turns (around 2 miles down the beach). The waves were just freight training rights, a couple feet overhead and more rectangles than round, just throwing out thiiiick barrels. I kept missing waves, half because they were impossible, half because I couldn't bring my self to jump over the ledge. Finally I realized that I couldn't see Rodanthe anymore and that I was going to have to make it to shore at some point. I paddle as far in as a I could and caught a medium sized one, and it was by far the fastest wave I've ever caught.
\nI was so stoked I paddled out for one more and in the process, took the heaviest lip to the head during a duckdive that I saw stars. My head almost got smashed into my board and I was immediately sucked back over the falls upside down and throughly thrashed, but I didn't let go of my board, even though it was way oversized for me/conditions (6'2 Santa Cruz fish, I only weighed in around 145).
\nAnyways, I finally made it to hwy 12 and started the 5 mile walk back to Rodanthe with my thumb out, trying to hitch a ride. I must have seen 20 empty pickup trucks drive by (fishermen hate surfers I guess) before a chick in a tacoma with only room on the tailgate to sit, gave me a ride back to town. It took me a couple nervous hours to find my other to buddies by driving down HWY 12 and running across the dunes looking for them up and down the beach.
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Nov 28, 2012, 06:55 PM
\nOcean Beach-' + '-It just gets insane
\nMoss Landing-' + '-' + '-Can be almost as bad as O beach
\nPuerto-' + '-' + '-Can really be rough when it gets well overhead but then it just lets you out sometimes
\nAny descent sized beach break when the h20 is low 50s or below-' + '-' + '-' + '-ugh
\nStrictly for length of paddle, Santa Catalina is a journey there and back-' + '-like half an hour
\nI was also on a boat trip to a no name break breaking half a mile off land in Nica one time and a dude and I drifted down the break a bit and it was IMPOSSIBLE to get back out after catching a couple waves -' + '-' + '- and of course we had to to get to the boat so we had to get back out. I managed to punch through after about 10 minutes but the other guy was ducking diving waves for 45 minutes about 15 feet away from me...it was crzy
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\nThat's intense man. Had a similar experience in RI during pre-hurricane swell. I tend to agree with Lee that the right coast is self-regulating, but everyone has those moments where the force of the ocean shocks them, and one of the craziest for me was during Irene last year. I was watching the path predictions early, so I went into angry broad deterrence mode. I planned a "getaway weekend" with the girl near the beach (that is generally clean during solid E/SE swell) before she heard about the storm and subsequently wanted to spend the weekend watching point break and listening to the rain... I've digressed.
\nThe point I was going to make was I believe it was Sunday right at the end of August, and you could tell the hurricane was passing. The barometer was still all screwed up , winds were ~30mph NNW, it still wasn't friendly out. I was parked on a bluff overlooking a NE facing beachbreak w/ miles of beach north and south. The ocean was still looking a bit discourteous, and after an hour of convincing myself the waves were shaping into a-frames, although uncomfortably large and most likely unmakeable, I considered suiting up. At this point an SUV driven by a once-hot soccer mom pulled up. Immediately two kids, maybe 17, jump out with bodyboards, sprint down the cliff just frothing and jump in. I'm not kidding when I say within one minute, the sideshore had swept them so far north they were gone - couldn't see them from the cliff. Until then I never thought someone was going to literally get taken into the Atlantic. It must have hit the mom all of a sudden because she stopped smiling, then she started losing her sh*t. I told her to follow me to the next beach, about 2 miles north, because there was no way they were making it back there. Some guys used to intentionally drift the beaches, but not like this. She followed me to the next beach and we just watched. After about 20 mins of waiting we were about to make some calls. Finally two black dots came into view on the beach… from the north. They were panicked and said they tried coming as soon as they got in but they had absolutely no control – they went north and then got pulled into a rip and they were fortunate to hang onto their boards and caught some lucky waves which eventually deposited them on the beach...3 miles from where they went in. Hurricanes carry a lot of power. Anyway I'm sure that would have been my worst paddle out had I made it in haha. Sorry for carrying on and a lack of paragraph separation but thanks for the good stories.
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Nov 29, 2012, 10:51 PM
DOH plus at Hermosa. It was brutal. Nobody was out except a couple of guys towing. My friends and i were going out nor matter what being that we just got off the plane and were so stoked to surf...
\nAfter 45 min of duckdiving I made it out. Took 1 wave, got the barrel of my life along with 2 of the best turns. I should have kicked out after the barrel but I was too stoked. A 2 story wall of water crashed on my head and I got thrashed for what I felt was 2 minutes, probably closer to 20 sec.. But, when I tell people it's 2 minutes. The black sand made it so dark.
\nI washed up in to water I can stand in, got my **** together and walked outto applause on the beach. I thought they saw my barrel and I felt like Slater. Then I pulled my leash to grab my board and realized why they were clapping. My shorts were on the other end of my leash. Thank god it didn't snap or my walk up the beach a lot more embarressing.
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Nov 30, 2012, 12:28 AM
when it gets big on north costa beachies its about a 1/2 mile paddle out. went at it for a half hour just to have a clean up set come through and break my leash. lucky my buddy was headed back out when it happened to assist. still pretty scary
\ngreat stories/thread
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Nov 30, 2012, 12:27 PM
\nLike two weeks ago I decided to go surf first street (...VB). Almost got run over by a pontoon boat and two jet ski's. It was 2-3ft.
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Nov 30, 2012, 01:50 PM
Agree with the Ocean Beach/Moss Landing guys. It gets crazy out there!
\nMy scariest *moments* were all in Hawaii paddle-outs, but more because of huge freak sets than the setup's themselves. I usually found the paddle-outs to be quite comfortable, even on the big days, so long as I scouted the terrain before getting in the water. That was actually a curse in some ways, because it was easy to get in WAY over my head at a time when my false confidence often surpassed the skillz.
\nAll in all, however, it's still those Jan-March days in good ole MD, when the waves are barely overhead but the water frigid, the air even colder, and the winds howling. I get so cold duck-diving that I literally feel my sanity leaving the body. Sometimes I'll start screaming profanity because it's just so damn agonizingly cold and I don't know what else to do about it...probably really funny for those watching, but whatever.
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This is a fun thread, I've never had the pleasure of an Ocean Beach thrashing but as a long boarder, have had a few days where you can't believe how far and long you have to paddle. I can recall several days at Boca Barranca where if you don't find the right gap, you are thrashing through some very push long-period swell. The bigger it is the farther out it breaks, so you're talking about quite the ridiculous paddle. Probably 1,000 paddle strokes on a longboard to get outside. It is a point break so you have the alternative of paddling around the break, but that can be 1/2 mile.
\nFor me, my most memorable paddle out was an October day at Assateague, MD. It was a hurricane swell and I stood on the beach with a couple of buddies intimidated by the walls of whitewater pushing across the trough and then re-forming to create some incredible shore pound. After watching for a while we decided to suit up and head out. I was a relative newby, had been surfing a lot that year, but not for a long time. I saw what I thought was a gap and started to head out and suddenly I went from being in thigh deep water to being on dry sand and looked up to a huge shorebreak wave that detonated on top of me flinging me and my board up onto the beach.
\nI've always been a bit hard-headed (ask my wife) so I picked up my board and chose another gap and started paddling. When the first wall of whitewater hit me, I couldn't believe the power in the water and how it thrashed my body as I tried to fight through it. I kept digging hard to get outside as my heart pounded. I was almost completely out of gas and almost outside, when my buddy Hank looks over and yells that a cleanup set was coming. I dug deep and put my chin down and gave it everything I had left to scratch for the horizon. I made the first two waves of the set but the third wave loomed large and looked like I was a goner. I was totally spent yet found a way to keep paddling and just as I was cresting the top I felt as if my leash was tugging me backwards. With two last strokes I broke loose from the grasp and was outside.
\nI was completely exhausted and wound up sitting outside for an hour before I had the gumption to try catching some waves. I wound up getting some nice rides before I broke my board and had to swim the two pieces in. My buddy Hank graciously offered to loan me a board, but I declined and went birding the rest of the afternoon.
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Nov 30, 2012, 03:19 PM
Duppies, Barbados @ 10+ feet. The currents are weird out there even when its smaller, this was insane with waves breaking through the channel and a constant current trying to draw you back into the cliffs of death. I even got knocked back on my ass in the keyhole trying to punch through the 6' Waimea shorebreak-esque craziness.
\nIf you've seen it that big out there, you know what I'm talking about.
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Nov 30, 2012, 04:35 PM
Big Nor'easter swells in New England are definitely brutal for the cold alone, but the worst I've taken was definitely at Punta de Lobos, Chile - double overhead+ with strong onshore flow keeping you pinned into the rocks by the El Mirador section. Spent 30 minutes plus duckdiving waves while essentially stationary, less than 20 feet off the rocks, before finally getting a window and sneaking through a 3-foot wide gap between rocks and getting into the open ocean on the inside.
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Step Up Your Mixology Game With This Cocktail Crash Course
Ever walked into a fancy bar and marveled at the array of house-made syrups, flavored with fruits, spices, and herbs? Or sampled a terrific cocktail and wondered just how the bartender got it to taste just right? Well, infused simple syrups — and their so-trendy-right-now counterpart, shrubs — are an easy way to take cocktails (and even mock-tails) to the next level. And since we love mixing our own drinks at home, we're fully on board with capturing seasonal flavors in our own elixirs.
To give our DIY dreams so direction, two bloggers-slash-bartenders are putting on a pretty sweet class this week. Dana Onyewu and Anthony Rivera will teach you how to make syrups and shrubs, how to best utilize them in your cocktail recipes, and how to invent your own flavorful creations. The $35 ticket gets you three cocktails, appetizers galore, and hands-on instruction — plus, you'll get to bottle your own custom syrup to take home. Cheers to that!
When: Tuesday, August 28; 7-8:30 p.m.
Where: One Lounge, 1606 20th Street NW; 202-299-0909.
Where: One Lounge, 1606 20th Street NW; 202-299-0909.
Photo: Courtesy of Dana Onyewu
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